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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Subjective stress"”.
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The relationships among endogenous cortisol, subjective stress, and bone mineral density in non-elderly women
… cortisol (determined by salivary cortisol), subjective (perceived) stress and BMD in non-elderly women. A sample of 38 women between the ages of 30 and 65 years, without a previous diagnosis of osteoporosis, and who were not taking glucocorticoids was obtained to examine the relationships …
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The Effect Of Abstinence From Smoking On Stress Reactivity
Subjective stress is a well-documented predictor of early smoking relapse, yet our understanding of stress and tobacco use is limited by the reliability of current available measures of stress. Functional magnetic reasoning imaging (fMRI) could provide a much-needed objective measure of stress …
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Adverse childhood experiences, working memory, and stress
… memory as assessed by an n-back task, and stress. Working memory task demands were manipulated by varying the cognitive load (1-back/3-back) and time limit (standard-paced/time-restricted), and stress was measured both subjectively via self-report and objectively via heart rate and heart …
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Design of a virtual environment for physiological and subjective monitoring of user presence in VR
… measuring presence exist, and are classified as subjective or objective, with the latter being the most omnipresent. This paper discusses the process of designing a VR environment for subjective and objective presence measurement. The main physiological cue this study aims to inspect is …
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An exploration of Rape Crisis counsellors' experiences of stress and coping in the context of their work
This study attempts to explore the experiences of stress and coping amongst volunteer counsellors in a Rape Crisis organisation in the context of their counselling work. The literature on vicarious traumatization provides a basis for understanding that trauma counselling can be stressful for …
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Differentiation between the Effects of Physical and Psychosocial Stress on a Feedback-based Learning Task
… This learning process is influenced by acute stress. However, different laboratory stressors elicit different physiological response patterns, which may influence feedback processing differently. Moreover, individual differences in stress reactivity may be associated with reward sensitivity. …
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Attachment Style, Depression, and Health Outcomes among Antepartum Patients
… have been shown to experience higher levels of stress than the general population, which has been hypothesized to activate adaptive and maladaptive patterns of interpersonal relationships. Therefore, the present study investigated the relationship among attachment style, stress, depression, and …
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The Relationship Between Stress and Communication When Receiving an Injection
… (1) positive communication will create more stress than by-talk communications (2) by-talk communication will create more stress than negative communications, and (3) positive communication will create more stress than negative communication. The purpose of the study was to find out the …
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Stress, coping, and adaptation in married couples
… the utility of a proposed model of family stress. For individual family members it was proposed that the level of strain (or subjective stress) in response to an event is related to (a) person variables, including importance of the event, beliefs about internal or external control, …
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Stress, coping, and adaptation in married couples
… the utility of a proposed model of family stress. For individual family members it was proposed that the level of strain (or subjective stress) in response to an event is related to (a) person variables, including importance of the event, beliefs about internal or external control, …
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Just Add Monsters: Stressful Biofeedback Games for Improved Physiological Control
… which can precede, co-occur with, and follow stressful experiences. The bi-directional relationship between these physiological responses and their subjective experiences suggests that physiology itself could be a useful therapeutic target. Many established therapies incorporate elements of …
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A Clonal, Transcriptomic, and Functional Analysis of T-cells Mobilized to Blood in Response to Acute Exercise
… (e.g. improved sleep quality, reduction in subjective stress) and long-term effects (e.g. decreased risk and incidence of cardiovascular disease/cancer). Emerging evidence has also determined that physical activity lowers the risk of infection and mortality caused by virus’ such as …